Ornament



Feb. 2, 1937. j F. J. STRASSNER 2,069,286

ORNAMENT Filed D sc. 11, 1934 VIII/[1211110111111 FEE IN VEN TOR.

Patented F 6b.": 2, 1937 Thiainvention relatesrtozorna'men ,and moreoparticularlyito ornamental adapted fofamxation "1703 an articlesurfacezz Especial re'fer'ence::is' had to such :ornaments ta initials;monomm,-:snihouetteszandv themlike," 'fetchedi. 1- otherwise,formed-sfor example. by stamping+from rela- ;tively :thingv'fiat 'metalit:. un'd'erstood; how- :ever, that :the: principles'x ofi-th:'invention may :be, applied" sin: -"connection with other v form's iiofqornamentsn "Illustrative; of articles i-wlfose" "i: surfaces are tbrbeornamented imay i. emiii'entioned cigarettecasesian'dboxes;-,-vanityicases;toiletware, trays-g ash receivers'p: etc etc.;atithe; same? time ythe surface ornamentation nfisuch' mildly flexiblearticles as,;wallets',-purses,"hand bag etc; also contemplatedrzt, H1:1: H in;

iwhenitheprname tsare attached 1to:the article isurfacesuatgthe:timek-of roriginalemanufacture of the articles, it may befoundrelatively convenient at!) aflixthemdn anyone: of several'manners."Sevor rel manners: ofji.;affixation;.:-have irheeni broadly shown win;United. ,,-States,- :.;LettersaZPatent 1N0. 953,784,;issued; Apr? 2.3,?11934; to Strassnernand tlhitmora; it frequently :necessary, however, toaffix the ornaments to the articles atsome later time and; under, :some;circumstances for lexamplein; connectionswith'ztheiretail sale ofxthearticle-:which, preclude the; propempe'rformance of any but tl1esimplestgprocessof; afllxationi It is an,= object ciim'yinvention .;toprovide :an O ament. wh chmay ;be affixed to van article surface at;anytime: with :a minimum of skill; labor, -.and m t ria qrzequipmentu 1.w; ltis-"anothen oblect togiprqvide an tornament ;,which maybegailixedwith greatafacility; to .an article surface, and withnegligibleriskof:itslater detachment. f;

A common means-of aiiixingtheornament to the article; surface, is; -abinding; medium 1 interqs dbetw ent o nt: d, earticle, surr'ace andadapted to adhere to,,ea,ch.-: One vofthe Y deficiencies-of such bindingmediasas at present known isthe tendency toward disruptionipf the medumo io e h si n o e t r, ornament iert e ur c whe 1 6101136 3 and a thave materially different temperaturecoeflicients of; expansion andcontraction. and are ,subjected after ornamentvaflixationtto appreciabletemperature change. The seriousness of: this deficiency maybeminimizedwhen-the afllxationprocess can be carried out under more:or-less ideal circumstances l in, respect oi; skill,; materials andfacilities. The deflciencyhas tended to become more significant, ,w QwPa;ti a 1 ingr ect f ,the adhesion between the medlumand the articlePATENT oarce Maplewood Township I ,Easex flounty, N. J.pplicaflor-December' 11, 1934, Serial No. 756,944

surface-the simpler the amxation process has been made.

An object oi. my invention is the provision. of an improved bindingmedium for use between ornament and article surface.

. Another object of my invention is theprovislon of a binding mediumwhich permits a most simple process of ornament afllxation and which,after such process has been carried out, will have suitable internalcharacteristics, and sufficient adhesion to both ornament and article,to resist thedisruptions abovementioned.

A further object is to provide an ornament t which there already adheresa binding medium having the desirable characteristics lastabovementioned.

Other and allied objects pear from the following description'and theappended claims.

In the description reference is had to the accompanying drawing, ofwhich: a

Figure 1 is a front face View of an etched ornament, illustratively inthe form of the letter "A, which may be provided with my improvedbinding medium;

Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line 2-2 of Figure l,the ornament appearing with its back face upwards; and

Figure 3 is a view generally similar to Figure 2, but illustrating incross-section the ornament affixed to an article surface with its frontface'upwards.

I contemplate as an ornament adapted for very simple afilxation one onwhose rear face is exposed a coating of water soluble adhesiveforexample of the variety used in the higher grades of gummed labels andtapes, whichremain indefinitely in a condition wherein they can bequickly made sticky by the application of water or saliva. Such anornament could be affixed to an article surface by the extremely simpleprocess of moistening the adhesive coating and pressing the ornamentagainst the surface. I have found, however, that a binding mediuminterposed between ornament and surface and composed wholly of suchmaterial has, when dry, too small an elastic limit to accommodate itselfto the longitudinal strains set up in the medium by unequal expansion orcontraction of ornament and article; disruption of the medium or of itsadhesion to ornament or article surface is quite likely under evenmoderate temperature changes.

A material of higher elastic limit is to be found in non-water solublecements, such as cellulose and synthetic resin cements-particularly thewill morefully apsolvent at the place of ornament amxation. however, Ihave found that solvent to soften the cement before afii xation;thecharactcristicsofthesurfacestobeornamented, these frequently beingpoorly suited to adhesion with the cement unless first subjectedtoasurfacesizingtreatmentwhichitis usually impracticable to give them;etc. All of these factors are of especial significance when the articlewith ornament aiiixed' is subjected to temperature changes; for whilethe cement may have a suiiicient elastic limit itself to withstand thelongitudinal strains set up by the diflerential expansion orcontraction, thereis an attendant strain on its adhesions to ornament anarticle surface. Having been applied to the ornament while fluid, andunder otherwise relatively ideal circumstances, its adhesion to theornament almost invariably withstands these strains; the strains arelikely to be fatal, however, to its less excellent adhesion to thearticle surface.

According to my invention the rear face of the ornament is coated with anon-water soluble cement, preferably having a relatively high elasticlimit when dry; when this cement has dried, it in turn is coated with awater soluble adhesive, for example of the variety above mentioned.

Upon the drying of this adhesive the ornament may be stored indefinitelyunder random conditions, being always ready for aiiixation uponmoistening of the water soluble adhesive with water or saliva.

In the drawing I have illustrated my invention in connection with anornament I, etched from thin metal in manner to provide arcuate,bevelled edges 2 as described in the patent abovementioned; it isobvious, however, that this invention is not limited to use with thisparticular form of ornament. The front face of the ornament isdesignated as 3, and the rear or back face as I. On the back face 4 inFigure 2 appears the coating 5 of non-water soluble cement, and overthis the coating 8 of water soluble adhesive-each applied preferably ina thoroughly fiuid state, the latter after drying of the former. Eitheror both the coatings may of course be laminatedi. e., applied in two ormore individual coatings each dried before application of the succeedingone. In Figure 2 the thicknesses of the coatings 5 and 6 have beenexaggerated in the interest of illustration; the preferred thickness ofthe ornament has also been exaggerated, the actual ornaments beingpreferably thin, and also somewhat aocas'es fiexible u intended forapplication so dfllfl' than quite rigid surfaces. Figure 8 illustratesthe ornament I after ailixation to an article surface 1.7a single heavyline being employed in this figure to denote the coatings l and i.

Thus my improved binding medium comprisesthe combination of thenon-water soluble cement coating I and the water soluble adhesivecoating i; the ornament adapted for simple afiixation is one to whichthis binding medium has been applied withthe coatings in the. ordernamed. bviously the process of ailixing this ornament is of the utmostsimplicity, comprising simply the moistening with water or saliva of thecoating 8 and the pressing of the ornament against the article surface.Furthermore I have found that the ornaments so afilxed reliably remainattached to the article surfaces. As far as strains within the bindingmedium are concerned, the coating i with its relatively high elasticlimit absorbs these strains without disruption. The adhesion of thecoating 8 to the rear ornament face 4, and the adhesion of the coating 0to the dried coating I, are each excellent, the respective coatings ineach case having been applied in fluid condition; the latter of theseadhesions is made further proof against longitudinal strains by theinherent slight surface irregularities in the dried coating 5, to whichthe coating 6, applied fluid, fully conforms itself. Finally theadhesion of coating 6 to the article surface, being relieved by theelasticity of the coating of the extremely high temperatureproducedstrains occurring in the absence of that coating, will withstand widetemperature changes and has proven thoroughly satisfactory withpractically all article surfaces and under almost all conditions ofafter-use of the articles short of continued soaking in water.

It may of course be mentioned that should the removal from the surfaceof the ornament be at any time deliberately desired, this may beaccomplished by a sufilcient and apt application of either water or asolvent appropriate to the coating 5.

It will of course be understood that my invention is-capable ofmodification without departure from its true scope; that scope isintended to be expressed in the appended claims, as broadly as the stateof the art will permit.

Where I have referred in this specification to a fluid state of cementor adhesive, I mean to denote, unless otherwise specially qualified,only a sufilciently fluid state to insure full conformity of thematerial to the material or surface to which it is applied.

I claim:-

1. A metal ornament having a rear surface and carrying a. binding mediumwhereby to secure the same to a surface to be ornamented, said mediumcomprising a coating of non-water soluble cement adhering to saidornament surface, and a coating of water soluble adhesive adhering tosaid first coating, said second coating being adapted to be moistenedfor adhesion to said second surface.

2. A metal ornament having a rear surface and carrying a binding mediumwhereby to secure the same to a surface to be ornamented, said mediumcomprising a coating of non-water soluble cement having a relativelyhigh elastic limit and adhering to said ornament surface, and a coatingof water soluble adhesive adhering to said first coating, said secondcoating being adapted to be moistened for adhesion to said secondsurface.

aoeaaee 3. A relatively thin and flat metal ornament adapted foraflixation to an article surface, having on its rear face a coating ofnon-water soluble cement, and thereover a coating of water solubleadhesive.

4. A relatively thin and flat metal ornament adapted for afllxation toan article surface, having on its rear face a coating of non-watersoluble cement of relatively high elastic limit, and thereover a coatingof water soluble adhesive.

5. A metal ornament having a rear surface and carrying a binding mediumwhereby to secure the same to a surface to be ornamented, said mediumcomprising an exposed coating of adhesive of relatively small elasticlimit adapted to be moistened for adhesion to said second surface, and alayer of cement of relatively high elastic limit interposed between andadhering to both said coating and said ornament surface.

6. A relatively thin and flat metal ornament adapted for amxation to anarticle surface, having an exposed rear coating of adhesive ofrelatively small elastic limit, and a layer of cement of relatively highelastic limit interposed between and adhering to both said coating andsaid ornament.

FRANK J. STRABSNER.

